(1) Reading is...

Using Pages (IWORK 09), create posters of teachers posing with their favourite book, magazine, text form.
Would include a brief sentence or two about what reading means to them.
Will be posted throughout the school.

(2) A) Get Caught Reading - home

Teachers/Librarian will present a student with a ballot every time they see the student reading a non-content based text form.
Ballot would provide student with a chance to win a prize to be drawn during the Literacy Fair or their very own Reading Is... poster.

Using a digital camera, students catch their family reading at home on camera and bring the footage back in to school, where it be collected and made into a montage video to show at the Literacy Fair. Encourage students to film their family reading anything, including newspapers, recipe books and labels.
For families that do not have digital cameras, still shots can be taken, scanned, and converted to JPEG format to be included in montage.
For families that don't own a camera, pictures can be drawn, scanned, and converted to JPEG format to be included in montage.

Teachers/Librarian will post listings of their favourite book titles on a designated bulletin board.
Students can read these titles as part of promotion #2 or #4.

Based upon the posted favourite reading lists, students read and discuss those books in a small (3 to 5 people) group setting using Book Talk Ideas.
Book Talks observed as exceptional will be invited to demonstrate this literacy technique at the Literacy Fair.
Student recommendations for read aloud titles will be considered based on these Book Talks.

Students sign up to read a poem of their choice on the school announcements.
Can be done alone or with a group.
Students take ownership as this is voluntary, signing themselves up and choosing what poems they will perform.

Students and staff will post titles of what they are currently reading on the bulletin board (can you different shapes and coloured paper).
Way to demonstrate that everyone is a reader.

Recommendations - If you like this book, you will love...
Focus on what will the student read next as sometimes it is hard to decide because of the numerous options available.
Allows students to independently chose their next book.

Using Pages (IWORK 09), will create posters depicting... (Come up with ideas at a later date.)
Having posters in different languages (Look at ESL/ESD student nationality/first language).
Any suggestions?

Create a top ten reads poster of the results of the top ten most frequently borrowed books from the school library.

Recruit a small group of English as a Second Language (ESL) and/or English as a Second Dialect (ESD) students to make a 'Top reading tips' leaflet for families in various community languages (e.g., Polish, Ojibwe, etc...). Alternatively, involve English-speaking children as well and set the group the task of creating a visual leaflet or family reading pack, which promotes reading through pictures, cartoons and uses a minimum of words.